Tag: Brazil

Rio+20, Surrounding Atlantic Forest, Botanical Garden, Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Surrounding Atlantic Forest, Botanical Garden, Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Surrounding Atlantic Forest, Botanical Garden, Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Surrounding Atlantic Forest, Botanical Garden, Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Maroon-bellied Parakeet, Pyrrhura frontalis, Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Surrounding Atlantic Forest, Botanical Garden, Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Green-headed Tananger, Tangara seledon, feeding on Corozo Palm (Attalea cohune)Atlantic Forest,At the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Masked Water-tyrant (fluvicola nengeta), Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Surrounding Atlantic Forest, Botanical Garden, Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Channel-billed Toucan, Ramphastos vitellinus, Atlantic forest, Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20, Channel-billed Toucan, Ramphastos vitellinus, Atlantic forest, Rio de JaneiroAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Rio+20 Brazilian Pavilion, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAt the Rio+20 Conference, world leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, NGOs and other groups, came together to discuss how we can reduce poverty, advance social equity and ens...

By Peter Prokosch

Cleared land in the Amazon Jungle, BrazilDeforestation in the Amazon area is driven mainly by industry and agriculture. Mato Grosso means "Thick Woods" and is the name of an inland state of central Brazil, where widespread forest clearing has had a dramatic imp...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Xingu National Park, BrazilThe Amazon River Basin contains the largest rainforest on Earth. Nearly 50% of South America is blanketed by the Amazon Rainforest. When the South American tectonic plate and the Nazca plate collided 15 million years ago...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Geometrical scars on the land, BrazilHere in Mato Grosso, the Amazon has been exploited in the name of agriculture, with little regard for the environmental impacts. Sugar cane and soybean plantations have replaced hectare after hectare of jungle.
Since 1...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Geometrical scars on the land, BrazilHere in Mato Grosso, the Amazon has been exploited in the name of agriculture, with little regard for the environmental impacts. Sugar cane and soybean plantations have replaced hectare after hectare of jungle.
Since 1...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Aerial view of the Amazon JungleAugust 2009, flying over the Mato Grosso region in Brazil, there is evidence of dramatic change. The entire ecosystem is threatened by the impacts of agriculture, along with the indigenous populations who make this their...

By Riccardo Pravettoni

Cleared land in the Amazon Jungle, BrazilDeforestation in the Amazon area is driven mainly by industry and agriculture. Mato Grosso means "Thick Woods" and is the name of an inland state of central Brazil, where widespread forest clearing has had a dramatic imp...